there is a lovely hookah in one of our conference rooms here at work. this is a relatively new addition.

oh, and we now have a pool table here in the office as well

monday 9:40am, an email goes out to the whole office that there are ingredients for Bloody Mary's in the breakroom. i like it here

11 days until xmas holidays
+8 days in Kaitaia, Ackland and Waiheke
+5 last frantic days in Wellington
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25 days until i'm on a plane to Portland

yeah, i'm both excited and freaking out a little bit about this.

it's been two weeks since my interviews. and i haven't gotten a reply yet ... which makes it more and more likely with each passing day that they are going to make me an offer.
if they were going to say thanks, but no thanks, they would have done it by now ( Read more... )

in the last couple of months leading up to our holiday, Bex and i had changed our plan from ( Read more... )

it's 3.5 months until we go on holiday to the U.S., and the plan is that as soon as we return from that trip we'll start working on getting Bex her U.S. residency so that we can move to Oakland in March of 2012 ( Read more... )

on Thursday i had a job interview

i feel that it went really well. that being said i have no idea who the competition is... but i do know that they had several other people lined up for interviews after me.

but what is really on mind is that i have now taken a real step in the direction of getting a new job

DoL blocks a lot of websites. often with a warning that any* given site "may ( Read more... )

and speaking of work ( Read more... )

for a variety of reasons, my performance evaluation was delayed. but when it was finally done it went really well. i had worked hard over the previous two years and my manager gave me the title promotion* that i had set as one of my goals in my performance evaluation two years ago. and she also recommended me for a salary rise. we both signed the ( Read more... )